On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 2:55 PM, Jordan Erickson <[email protected]> wrote: > Robert, > > I agree with you on your points, but I think you're missing a couple of > things in regard to the bigger picture - > > 1) Thin clients run at 8-30W of power. Your version of a "power > efficient and fast desktop system" will consume much more than the > average thin client, even if the box says "green" all over it. >
Hi Jordan, I think you are correct and this is a valid point. The cost of electricity is important. This is something I would like to definitely investigate further. I have a kill-a-watt device I will take to work tomorrow. My clients are Dell Optiplex 760 with Intel Celeron E1400 (dual core 2.0 Ghz Allendale cores) with Intel Q43 chipset ( X4500 video chip). I will measure power consumption at the login prompt (*not* including monitor) and post back. But I'm wondering if someone with a true thin client system (Dual core Atom) can do the same and post back. > 2) Flash and Java honestly aren't LTSP's problem. The LTSP devs have > done an AMAZING job at trying to accomidate these types of issues with > proprietary/power hungry softwares, but the fact of the matter is, just > because Flash and/or Java doesn't perform perfectly all the time under > LTSP doesn't mean LTSP isn't a viable solution (Maybe not for your > specific setup though?). Quite the contrary, maybe we should be putting > more pressure on Adobe/Oracle if we want these things to work better as > well? (And on a personal side-rant, Flash is horribly resource intensive > on a standalone workstation, so it really has little to do with LTSP as > a technology - It eats up plenty of CPU on my home PC). Agreed. I hope flash dies. With html5/webm on Youtube and Steve Jobs boycotting flash for mobile gizmos, it's already happening. > > 3) Not sure what kind of scenario you mean by scaling full-screen video. > I can run a bluray fullscreen to my LTSP client (not a localapp) with no > lag. Of course that *is* one station and not 50 - but put together some > multicasting magic and I don't see how it could really be a problem, at > least for playing a single video at the same time. If you need to do > many separate videos fullscreen at the same time, a simple > vlc/totem/mplayer localapp will fix that problem straight away. If > you're talking about flash, see #2. Multicasting. Always wanted to play with that. -- Robert Arkiletian Eric Hamber Secondary, Vancouver, Canada -- edubuntu-users mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/edubuntu-users
